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Show FLESH IS BOILED FROM THEIR BODIES, BOZEMAN, Mont, Aug. 8. Engineer William Craft and his fireman, Jabe Pepper, Pep-per, are dead as the result of a scalding received in the wreck of Superintendent Boyle'a special, which collided with a switch engine in the yards here Saturday n'i'he two men died In fearful agony, their flesh 'being boiled from their 'bodies in many places. Engineer Craft's heme Is In Billings, snd he was considered one. of the best engineers In the servlcd of the Northern Pacific, having been with the road for over ten yewa Craft and Pepper ' were pinioned beneath be-neath the twisted Iron of their engine-for a number of minutes, being bathed In a steady stream of scalding steam from the wreck boiler. Pepper managed to extricate extri-cate himself, and was found by a rescuing rescu-ing party wandering in the brush, erased by pain. ..'- .William T. McGonlgan, who was crushed to death beneath the Craft engine, en-gine, was the traveling engineer of th Northern Pacific. He was accompanying President Elliott on hla tour of the Northwest, and was In the cab with Craft. He was a thirty-second degree Mason and a Shrlner. His horn is at Cedar Ce-dar Hapids, la. |